an Endocrine Society Thematic Issue
Read our special collection of journal articles, published in 2020–2022, focused on biological rhythms! Curation of the collection was guided by Altmetric Attention Scores and Featured Article designations.
Recent years have seen a huge increase in the research focus on rhythms, which are typically driven by interlinked biological clocks and influence a plethora of endocrine processes. Because disruption of the rhythms is linked to metabolic disease, increased understanding of them holds promise for treatments.
In Journal of the Endocrine Society, Greendale and coauthors report on melatonin patterns and levels during the human menstrual cycle. They find a late luteal melatonin rise, likely signaled by progesterone, that may influence cycle pacemaker control. In a prospective study, Levine and colleagues find an association between total urinary phytoestrogens, although not individual phytoestrogens, and shorter menstrual cycle length. Lenert and associates discover that in female mice, a high-fat diet led to an increase in time spent in proestrus and estrus, and an increase in serum progesterone during proestrus.
In Endocrinology, Brubaker and Martchenko survey a Basic Science Collection of mini-reviews about the circadian clock in metabolic homeostasis. One of the items in the collection, by Seshadri and Doucette, surveys literature about the role of the pancreatic islet/beta cell circadian clock in beta cell biology. Oosterman and colleagues discuss the idea that a desynchronization between tissue metabolic clocks, induced by shift work, contributes to insulin resistance.
In JCEM, Grant and colleagues report that healthy volunteers have a hypersensitive triglyceride response to ingested calories when they eat at night. Arredondo-Amador and coauthors likewise find a circadian sensitivity in hormone-sensitive lipase activity. And Gu and associates confirm that a late dinner induces nocturnal glucose intolerance and reduces fatty acid oxidation and mobilization.
Endocrine Reviews has an article by Kim and Lazar that reviews the transcriptional architecture of the mammalian circadian clock. Lightman and associates analyze the dynamics of cortisol secretion, which are affected by disease states, and the implications for mammalian biology. Manoogian and colleagues put such insights into practice in their account of how time-restricted eating can prevent or manage metabolic disease.
Published: July 2022
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